2008 Cheltenham Festival Guide

Welcome to the Gambling Guru 2008 Cheltenham Festival betting guide, your ultimate online resource on the biggest national hunt meeting in the United Kingdom. Punted as a showdown between the Irish and English national hunt fraternities, the 2008 Cheltenham Festival promises another year of superb jump racing.

First held in 1902, the Cheltenham Festival has come to represent all that is best in national hunt racing: massive crowds, heroic racehorses and jockeys, a wide variety of races across the different national hunt formats and some of the biggest betting markets of the year.

2008 Cheltenham Festival Betting

The Cheltenham Festival offers some unique betting opportunities to punters. Besides betting on the winning horses in an array of top hurdle and steeplechase events, punters have other great 2008 Cheltenham Festival betting options including the ever-popular bet on which jockey will claim the Top Jockey title by riding home the most winners during the course of the festival.

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The headline event of the Cheltenham Festival is the Grade 1 Cheltenham Gold Cup, the race that forged the reputations of some of the most legendary horses in the history of national hunt racing. The media is already generating a huge buzz over the prospects of 2007 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Kauto Star in the 2008 Cheltenham Gold Cup. With Kauto Star looking to confirm his status as an all time great, the frenzy of media attention will once again see Cheltenham Gold Cup betting markets dwarf the other Cheltenham festival betting markets.

The excitement of Cheltenham Festival betting is what the Gambling Guru Cheltenham Festival betting guide is all about. On our site you’ll find a wide variety of helpful resources to assist you with making the most of your Cheltenham Festival betting opportunities.

Along with our top Cheltenham festival betting pages we also take a look at some of the Cheltenham Festival’s key races and provide a guide to the famous racetrack that has hosted a century of legendary Cheltenham Festival action.

With regular updates, and the latest 2008 Cheltenham Festival news, the Gambling Guru 2008 Cheltenham Festival betting pages are an indispensable guide to the greatest national hunt meeting of them all.

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